Compatibility/UADetectionLibraries

User Agent Detection Libraries

This is a list of User Agent detection libraries to be tested for compatibility with Firefox OS and Firefox for Android. This may also include general purpose JS libraries that include some kind of UA detection.

The end goal is to contact these sites or (even better, in the case of open source libraries) provide patches so our mobile browsers are correctly identified as mobile (and not served desktop content or blocked outright).

UA strings to test with:

Firefox Mobile for Android:

• Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:23.0) Gecko/23.0 Firefox/23.0

Firefox OS:

• Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0

Libraries to be tested

JavaScript

• Dojo Toolkit https://github.com/dojo/ (see http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.7/quickstart/browser-sniffing.html)
  • Do we need to recommend a ffos or fxos token be added to the module? https://github.com/dojo/dojo/blob/master/sniff.js

Server Modules

• Detect Right http://detectright.com/ (have emailed, unclear how to test this)
• NetBiscuits http://www.netbiscuits.com/ (need to figure out how we can test this)
• OpenDDR http://openddr.org/ (need to find an email contact)
• Handset Detection http://www.handsetdetection.com/

Tested, issues reported in Bugzilla

Meta Bug: 915706

• Apache Mobile Filter 916250
• Device.js 915853 *
• http://detectmobilebrowsers.com/ Bug 914241*
• is-mobile Bug 914231 *
• Platform.js Bug 913633
• UA.js Bug 913189 *
• User Agent Utils 915727 *
• Woothee Bug 914313 *
• WPTouch (WordPress) Bug 909420

*fixed

Libraries known to be compatibile

Go

• UserAgent https://github.com/mssola/user_agent

Java

• UADetector https://github.com/before/uadetector

JavaScript

• Detect.js https://github.com/darcyclarke/Detect.js
• Express Device https://npmjs.org/package/express-device
• isMobile https://github.com/kaimallea/isMobile
• jQuery Mobile
• Mobile Agent https://github.com/fabdrol/mobileagent
• Mootools (https://github.com/mootools/mootools-core/blob/master/Source/Browser/Browser.js)
• Node User Agent Parse https://github.com/jujhars13/node-user-agent-parse
• ua-parser-js https://github.com/faisalman/ua-parser-js
• useragent https://github.com/3rd-Eden/useragent
• YUI - http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/yui/yui-ua.html

Multiple Languages

• ua-parser (multiple languages) https://github.com/tobie/ua-parser
• Mobile ESP http://blog.mobileesp.com/
  • Some ports of this are compatible, in contact with maintainer via email.

Perl

• HTTP::BrowserDetect https://github.com/oalders/http-browserdetect

PHP

• Categorizr https://github.com/bjankord/Categorizr (Note: no longer maintained)
• Detector (Drupal) https://drupal.org/project/detector / http://detector.dmolsen.com/
• Mobile-Detect https://github.com/serbanghita/Mobile-Detect / http://mobiledetect.net/ / http://code.google.com/p/php-mobile-detect/
• Mobile Detect Bundle https://github.com/suncat2000/MobileDetectBundle
• PHP User Agent https://github.com/ornicar/php-user-agent
• PHP User Agent Parser https://github.com/donatj/PhpUserAgent
• WordPress Mobile Detect http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mobile-detect/

Python

• Django Mobile https://github.com/gregmuellegger/django-mobile
• GoMobile (Plone) https://pypi.python.org/pypi/gomobile.mobile
• minidetector https://github.com/saschwarz/minidetector/network
• Python User Agents https://github.com/selwin/python-user-agents

Ruby

• agent_orange https://github.com/kevinelliott/agent_orange
• browser https://github.com/fnando/browser
• Mobvious https://github.com/jistr/mobvious (uses MobileESP (ruby port is at least compatible)
• UserAgent https://github.com/josh/useragent (makes no mobile/non-mobile distinction)
• User Agent Parser https://github.com/toolmantim/user_agent_parser

Server Detection Frameworks

• 51 Degrees http://51degrees.mobi/Products/DeviceDetection.aspx
• Device Atlas https://deviceatlas.com/device-data/user-agent-tester (it recognizes us as FFOS, but some of the data isn't quite accurate (says we dont support geolocation) and has some oddities like isBrowser: False (?)
• WURFL (1.4) http://tools.scientiamobile.com/?user-agent-string=Mozilla%2F5.0+%28Mobile%3B+rv%3A18.0%29+Gecko%2F18.0+Firefox%2F18.0